Location:

TIFF Lightbox Cinema, Cinema 4
350 King St W, Toronto, ON M6K 1H7

This programme presents Charlie Prodger’s experimental essayistic trilogy, which weaves together intimate histories and mythologies of queer subjectivity through the lens of desire and transformation. The trilogy was made between 2015 and 2019, and this is the first time the films are being screened together in North America.

Working across a range of formats and imaging technologies, Prodger has developed a distinctive authorial voice that is introspective without revealing itself as subject, perceptive without adhering to definition. She builds on traditions of structural film and essay film, combining navigational narratives and observational visuals—shot or assumed from her perspective—in attempts to locate the self. If Prodger’s films seem to operate within ellipses, it is because the self is a mutable force, whose relations and reference points are in constant states of becoming.

Prodger was the recipient of LUX Scotland’s Margaret Tait Commission in 2014, for which she made the first film in this trilogy, Stoneymollan Trail (2015). Prodger went on to win the prestigious Turner Prize in 2018 for the second film, BRIDGIT (2016); and the following year developed the final work, SaF05 (2019) with which she represented Scotland at the 2019 Venice Biennale, with support from Mercer Union, Toronto, among other international partners.

Introduction by Wavelengths guest curators Theresa Wang, Mercer Union, and Kitty Anderson, LUX Scotland. Transcripts for each film will be provided. Please visit tiff.net for details on venue access.